Combining an early Sea Mosquito with British night-strike practice suggests a larger attack on Taranto. The aircraft would need a different method from the Swordfish, so the comparison does not assume that existing tactics transfer unchanged. As a fighter, the imagined Sea Mosquito would rely on speed and concentrated gunfire against the Zero, whose turning performance it could not match. An initial reference to eight cannon is revised to four 20 mm cannon and four machine guns, with radar also mentioned. Greater room for the crew during a long transit is offered as another advantage of the larger twin-engine aircraft.
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Sea Mosquitos over Taranto and against the Zero
An early Sea Mosquito could change the scale and method of a Taranto strike, while its proposed fighter tactics trade the Zero's turning ability for speed and concentrated fire.